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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 16:57:18 MST
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- Subject: Re: historical fiction
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- From: luke@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Luke)
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- In article <15138.9211211404@csparc2.scs.leeds.ac.uk> ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk writes:
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- >Shusaku Endo IMHO does a good job of this sort of thing.
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- >The best one is historical fiction, and describes a priest who comes to
- >Japan during the time Christianity is banned. Most of the book describes
- >the way he is broken, and made to serve "Mudswamp Japan" (* - "Mudswamp
- >Japan" is a favourite term of Endo's, it may or may not be actually used
- >in this book, but the concept is there). I can't remember the exact title
- >of this book, could someone post, or I'll look it up if anyone's interested.
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- This one is "Silence" ("Chinmoku"). Very good. Another kind of along the
- same lines, but not quite as deep, perhaps, is "The Samurai" ("Samurai").
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- >Many of Endo's books are available as translations (I haven't been able to
- >obtain the originals) published by Penguin.
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- My only literary claim to fame is to know Endo's translator... :)
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